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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 15
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Abijam reigns in wickedness and then Asa in righteousness in Judah—Nadab and then Baasha reign in wickedness in Israel—Baasha destroys the house of Jeroboam.
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Now</span> in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
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Three years reigned he in Jerusalem.  And his mother’s name <i>was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 11: 20.">Maachah</a>, the daughter of Abishalom.
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And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> his God, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/3a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Kgs. 15: 3  . . .  as the Lord commanded David his father.">as</a> the heart of David his father.
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Nevertheless for David’s sake did the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
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Because <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 9: 4.">David</a> did <i>that which was</i> right in the eyes of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 17: 20.">turned</a> not aside from any <i>thing</i> that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Sam. 11: 3 (3-15); 1 Kgs. 14: 8; D&C 132: 39.">Uriah</a> the Hittite.
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And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
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Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, <i>are </i>they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?  And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
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And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
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&#182; And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
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And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem.  And his <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE grandmother’s name (cp. v. 2, 13; 2 Kgs. 8: 26).">mother</a>’s name <i>was</i> Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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And Asa did <i>that which was</i> right in the eyes of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/11a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Kgs. 15: 11  . . .  as he commanded David his father.">as</a> <i>did</i> David his father.
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And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
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And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from <i>being</i> queen, because she had made an idol <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE for Asherah (Canaanite goddess).">in</a> a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt <i>it</i> by the brook Kidron.
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But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 29: 13.">perfect</a> with the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> all his days.
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And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, silver, and gold, and vessels.
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&#182; And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
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Then Asa took all the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 12: 18.">silver</a> and the gold <i>that were</i> left in the treasures of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Chr. 16: 7 (7-9).">Ben</a>-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/18c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB Aram.">Syria</a>, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
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<i>There is</i> a league between me and thee, <i>and</i> between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
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So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
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And it came to pass, when Baasha heard <i>thereof,</i> that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
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Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none <i>was</i> exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
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The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?  Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
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And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 3: 7.">Jehoshaphat</a> his son reigned in his stead.
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&#182; And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
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And he did <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Unrighteous Dominion.">evil</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and walked in the way of his father, and in his <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 11: 29 (27-29).">sin</a> wherewith he made Israel to sin.
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&#182; And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which <i>belonged</i> to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
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Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
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And it came to pass, when he reigned, <i>that</i> he smote all the house of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 14: 10 (1-18).">Jeroboam</a>; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
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Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel to <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Anger.">anger</a>.
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&#182; Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
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And he did <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/15/34a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Unrighteous Dominion.">evil</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
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